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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Al-Razi's Conception of the Soul: Psychological Background to His Ethics [PDF]
, 1996 Page range: 245 ...
Druart, Thérèse-Anne
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Euthanasia: Murder or Not: A Comparative Approach.
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2014 Background Euthanasia is one of the most intriguing ethical, medical and law issues that marked whole XX century and beginning of the XXI century, sharply dividing scientific and unscientific public to its supporters and opponents. It also appears as one
Božidar Banović, Veljko Turanjanin
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s El Material Humano And The Labyrinth Of Postwar Guatemala: On Ethics, Truth, And Justice [PDF]
, 2016 Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s El material humano (2009) grapples with the consequences of Guatemala’s violent past by probing into a once-secret police archive that brings into the present the sufferings of the past.
Buiza, Nanci
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Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
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The Criminalization of Treating End of Life Patients with Risky Pain Medication and the Role of the Extreme Emergency Situation [PDF]
, 2007 This Note examines the legality of physicians treating patients near the end of life with risky pain medication, specifically during an extreme emergency situation.
Castellano, Gina
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Dead time, hard time, and narrative redemption: Delimiting the life proper
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Is every detail of your life a candidate for the meaningful, valuable, or worthwhile? If not, which do you exclude? Thaddeus Metz nominates “dead time”: the nail‐clipping, line‐waiting, traffic‐jam enduring, generally commonplace moments of our life. Dead time, while prevalent, is not remarkable. Metz recommends that we set at least some of it
Kathy Behrendt
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An eye on long‐duration spaceflight: Controversies, countermeasures and challenges
Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Space flight‐associated neuroocular syndrome (SANS) is a consequence of long‐duration space flight and is detected in two‐thirds of astronauts. In‐flight, this can cause a change in the refraction of the eyes, requiring graded hypermetropic ‘superfocus adjustable’ glasses, optic nerve head oedema and choroidal folds.
Vincent Wing Sum Ng +1 more
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